China

Football

Deals made directly with broadcasters boost earnings
Football

Football: German pay-broadcaster Premiere acquired exclusive rights for the Champions League in a three-year deal from 2006-07 to 2008-09

Basketball

Football: Jamaican commercial broadcaster CVM TV sublicensed rights for the 2010 and 2014 World Cup competitions from Caribbean sports cable operator SportsMax

The IMG agency is looking to acquire a stake in a major Chinese broadcaster

American Football

Figure Skating: US network NBC acquired the rights for US figure skating in a three-year deal with the US Figure Skating Association, covering the national championships and the international Skate America…
Cricket

Pan-Asian broadcaster in tough talks over continued distribution of its channels in Thailand, following loss of English Premier League football rights to UBC
Football

IMG, recenlty on the acquisition trail itself, could be a future target for French media group

Efforts to achieve market price for rights opposed by Chinese government, national Olympic committee and state broadcaster
Golf

Pay-television newcomers Setanta in the UK and Arena in Germany are bidding strongly for US golf rights against the established pay-operators in their countries.

Athletics

Athletics: The Dentsu agency, acting on behalf of the International Association of Athletics Federations, brokered three-year deals with broadcasters in China, Korea and New Zealand covering the 2007 and…
Football

Rights fee trebles, still falls short of asking price
Football

Anxious wait to see whether state broadcaster CCTV will finally pay market rates
Football

Football: Free-to-air broadcasters HRT (Croatia), RUV (Iceland) and TV3 (Slovenia), acquired exclusive live rights to all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in deals with the Sportfive agency, which is marketing…
Football

Competition between PCCW and i-Cable results in near-tripling of rights fees
Basketball

Ice hockey:  Finnish ice-hockey’s domestic SM-liiga signed a three-year joint-deal with pay-television operator Canal Plus Nordic and free-to-air commercial broadcaster Nelonen worth about €3.7m (£2.5m) a

The IOC will also start separate talks this spring in Hong Kong, a rights territory which, like China, has been treated as part of the ABU deal until now

Separate deal to be agreed with China for the first time for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics

Top markets may be carved out from European television-rights deal for 2014 and 2016 Olympics